formerly by the flagship of the Fortunoff department stores). Mitchel Field, which includes the Hempstead Plains site formerly known as Camp Mills, housed an Air Force base until 1961 and is currently used for multiple sites, including the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Nassau Community College, Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, and some of the housing and recreational facilities for Hofstra University. The last remaining few acres of untouched Hempstead Plains ground exist: Hempstead Plains Preserve near Nassau Community College, immediately adjacent to the power plant and directly behind the Long Island Marriott In the area behind The Wheatley School (the high school of the East Williston School District in Old Westbury), known as the Wheatley Woods for the trees that hide the acres of plains In the plains in Eisenhower Park In the plains which stretch east to the Suffolk County border In several acres in Plainview; the existing area was slated to be an extension of the Bethpage State Parkway which was not built, and the land was never developed References External links Friends of the Hempstead Plains official website Geography of Nassau County, New York Geography of Long Island Geography of New York (state) Plains of the United States